1. A General Assertion: All things come alike to all; there is one event. Which must be understood in a limited sense. By, All things, we are not to understand every Dispensation of God to the Children of men; for God Graciously reveals Himself in Christ unto some, ⟨p. 5⟩and leaves others wholly without this Revelation: And some are so Conducted by His Providence, as to be finally brought unto Glory; whereas others are left to themselves, and at last fall into everlasting Misery. But it intends only the outward Dispensation of Gods Providence, with regard to the affairs of this Life, and all the changes of it, Health and Sickness, Prosperity and Adversity, Life and Death. And when he saith, There is one Event to all; it is not to be taken Individually, as if every man were carried through the same Condition of Life, in all the particular passages of it; the contrary to which, is very obvious to all that observe the various states of men in this world: Some are in Prosperity, when others are sunk deep in Adversity; some are in Health, when others are Sick; some Die in their Youth, while others Live to old Age &c. But he intends it of all Sorts of men, and of Individuals only so far, as that they are always liable to, and have no security against the like Condition, none Being exempted from it. His meaning is, that the events of Providence are in this regard, such to one and another, that there is no Judgment to be made of their being either Loved or Hated by God, from the observation that we make upon them; Or, that this is no Rule for us to Judge of mens State by. Hence;
1. A General Assertion: All things come alike to all; there is one event. Which must be understood in a limited sense. By, All things, we are not to understand every Dispensation of God to the Children of men; for God Graciously reveals Himself in Christ unto some, ⟨p. 5⟩and leaves others wholly without this Revelation: And some are so Conducted by His Providence, as to be finally brought unto Glory; whereas others are left to themselves, and at last fall into everlasting Misery. But it intends only the outward Dispensation of Gods Providence, with regard to the affairs of this Life, and all the changes of it, Health and Sickness, Prosperity and Adversity, Life and Death. And when he saith, There is one Event to all; it is not to be taken Individually, as if every man were carried through the same Condition of Life, in all the particular passages of it; the contrary to which, is very obvious to all that observe the various states of men in this world: Some are in Prosperity, when others are sunk deep in Adversity; some are in Health, when others are Sick; some Dy in their Youth, while others Live to old Age &c. But he intends it of all Sorts of men, and of Individuals only so far, as that they are always liable to, and have no security against the like Condition, none Being exempted from it. His meaning is, that the events of Providence are in this regard, such to one and another, that there is no Judgment to be made of their being either Loved or Hated by God, from the observation that we make upon them; Or, that this is no Rule for us to Judge of mens State by. Hence;
